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authorFrancesco Fusco <ffusco@redhat.com>2013-12-12 19:09:05 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-12-17 23:27:17 +0400
commit71ae8aac3e198c6f3577cb7ad3a17f6128e97bfa (patch)
tree38373f36de3cc5590720b3e2cc73b2e2a73b7e50 /lib/Makefile
parent89e47d3b8a273b0eac21e4bf6d7fdb86b654fa16 (diff)
downloadlinux-71ae8aac3e198c6f3577cb7ad3a17f6128e97bfa.tar.xz
lib: introduce arch optimized hash library
We introduce a new hashing library that is meant to be used in the contexts where speed is more important than uniformity of the hashed values. The hash library leverages architecture specific implementation to achieve high performance and fall backs to jhash() for the generic case. On Intel-based x86 architectures, the library can exploit the crc32l instruction, part of the Intel SSE4.2 instruction set, if the instruction is supported by the processor. This implementation is twice as fast as the jhash() implementation on an i7 processor. Additional architectures, such as Arm64 provide instructions for accelerating the computation of CRC, so they could be added as well in follow-up work. Signed-off-by: Francesco Fusco <ffusco@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile
index a459c31e8c6b..d0f79c547d97 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile
+++ b/lib/Makefile
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ obj-y += bcd.o div64.o sort.o parser.o halfmd4.o debug_locks.o random32.o \
bust_spinlocks.o hexdump.o kasprintf.o bitmap.o scatterlist.o \
gcd.o lcm.o list_sort.o uuid.o flex_array.o iovec.o clz_ctz.o \
bsearch.o find_last_bit.o find_next_bit.o llist.o memweight.o kfifo.o \
- percpu-refcount.o percpu_ida.o
+ percpu-refcount.o percpu_ida.o hash.o
obj-y += string_helpers.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_STRING_HELPERS) += test-string_helpers.o
obj-y += kstrtox.o